Omega-3s override the bad gene causing Alzheimer's

Lots of other stuff in site to read through.
The article about GMO crops is what got my attention.

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Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly new pathogen causing spontaneous abortions among animals

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Todd:

Looks like that article lumped the pesticide Roundup with GMOs, they are against GMO so they are blaming GMOs when it is probably the Roundup that is to blame--roundup is a nasty pesticide, I didn't think they used it on crops, roundup is used for weeds/grasses.

Lots of pros and cons about GMO, it increases yields and makes plants immune against certain diseases so that less pesticides should be used.

Liz

Actually, they are concerned because the GMOs produce modified plant proteins not recognized by the body. "They" don't know, long-term what the results of this might be...nor does anyone care.

The use of RoundUp ready seeds is already big business and no one is going to stop them now... Alfalfa, I believe, was the latest addition to soy and corn and sugar beets. The resulting sugar will definitely be in human food.

Jackie

Here's one on Omega 3's helping to prevent age-related sarcopenia...courtesy of Craig Weatherby of Vital Choices... www.vitalchoice.com - reprinted with permission.

Omega-3s May Reduce Age-Related Muscle Loss

Small clinical trial in people over 70 is first to show that omega-3s enhance the efficiency of two key metabolic pathways to muscle creation
by Craig Weatherby

The results of a small placebo-controlled clinical study
from Washington University suggest that omega-3 fish oil
may help reduce age-related muscle loss.

The trial was designed to test the effects of daily
omega-3 pills on sarcopenia … the gradual loss of
muscle mass and strength associated with aging.

To put things in perspective, a person in their 20s will
have muscle that is up to 60 percent fat-free mass,
while this proportion drops to less than 40 percent by age 70.

Almost one in two people over 65 suffer from
sarcopenia to an extent that makes them noticeably
frail and vulnerable to falls.

As the trial’s authors wrote, “A major cause for the loss of muscle mass
with advanced age is the inability of aging muscle to adequately increase the rate
of muscle protein synthesis in response to nutritional stimuli … e.g., amino acids and insulin.” (Smith GI et al. 2011)

These facts may have prompted the test of omega-3s, which influence the body’s production and use of insulin.

For example, two rat studies found that dietary omega-3s increase the extent to which insulin binds to muscle cell membranes and the efficiency with which muscle cells use blood sugar (Storlien LH et al. 1991; Liu S et al. 1994).

Pilot trial is first to link omega-3s to reduced sarcopenia risk
To test whether omega-3s might help keep muscle mass from melting away, a Washington University team recruited 16 healthy adults (average age 71) and randomly assigned them to receive either omega-3 fish oil supplements or corn oil placebo capsules for eight weeks (Smith GI et al. 2011).

The study, led by Bettina Mittendorfer, Ph.D., tested the effects of taking four grams of fish oil per day, providing 1.86 grams of omega-3 EPA plus 1.5 grams of omega-3 DHA.

The authors chose this dose because it is the level approved by the Food and Drug Administration for lowering blood triglyceride levels in heart patients. (It’s higher than the daily dose range recommended for the general public – 250mg to 500mg per day – but there is no evidence that this amount of omega-3s is unsafe for healthy people.)

Unlike the corn oil group, the omega-3 group had twice as much anabolic (muscle building) activity resulting from two key pathways known to increase lean muscle mass.

As Dr. Mittendorfer and her co-workers wrote, “Omega-3 fatty acids stimulate muscle protein synthesis in older adults and may be useful for the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia.”

And they pinpointed one way in which the omega-3s helped: “In the present study, we provide novel evidence that dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation augments the hyperaminoacidemia- and hyperinsulinemia-induced increase in the rate of muscle protein synthesis in older adults.”
(Smith GI et al. 2011)

What does this jargon mean?

Hyperaminoacidemia-induced muscle building results from high levels of amino acids in the blood (Young VR, Marchini JS 1990) – due to protein-rich diets – while hyperinsulinemia–induced muscle building results when blood insulin levels are high (Fryburg DA et al. 1995; Hillier TA et al. 1998).

As a possible explanation for these increases in these two anabolic (muscle-building) pathways, the omega-3 group showed increases in the activation of a “signaling” pathway that’s reported to be, as the authors wrote, an “… integral control point for muscle cell growth” (specifically, a pathway called mTOR-p70s6k).

Still, the full range of means by which the omega-3s may enhance muscle mass creation remains to be detailed.


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